Windows Phone Thoughts: Paragon Software Releases Unabridged Merriam Webster Dictionary

"The famous Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary, found in every school and most of home libraries, provides with the most extensive coverage of American English. This authoritative dictionary contains 476,000 entries, 700,000 definitions and numerous illustrations, etymologies, synonyms, etc. In addition to quickly looking up a word and reading its definition, the user can listen to a word’s pronunciation and find etymologies describing its origins."



Whew! Shades of Wikipedia here. Paragon Software, best known for its Slovoed line of bilingual dictionaries, has released an unabridged Slovoed version of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary for the Windows Mobile and Palm platforms (using the Third New International Edition as the basis). The software has all the latest tools and modules of the Slovoed line, including voice samples to check your pronunciation. The product retails for $59.95 and you can get it through our affiliate store. If that sounds a bit much, or you need a bilingual version, Paragon offers a number of different versions scaled to your needs and budget, as well as French-English/English-French and Spanish-English/English-Spanish editions.